Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
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