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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.

John Quincy Adams

I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Eyes Myself Reading See
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Appearance Defeat
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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Deep Value World
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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Beyond God Greatness Law Power Service Soul Thinking
Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Goodness Preservation Yourself
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Alone Lost Principle Reflection Vote
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Heaven Herself Myself Success Wrong
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Gratitude Leaving Soul Thinking
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Man Myself Nation Politics
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Forever Liberty Lost
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Earth Government Happiness People Willing
Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

People Practice Virtue Wisdom
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst

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