Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
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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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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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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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