Virtue is not always amiable.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSDefeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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.
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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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