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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.

John Quincy Adams

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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Earth Government Happiness People Willing
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
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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Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
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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Existence Fundamental Independence Principle Slave Truth Wrong
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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Destroy Freedom Herself Independence Search
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.
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Gratitude Leaving Soul Thinking
Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Greatness Leadership
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Deep Value World
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
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Charity Compassionate Human Man
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Heaven Herself Myself Success Wrong
Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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People Practice Virtue Wisdom
Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Body Death Language Ourselves
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst

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