Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSGratitude, 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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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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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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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A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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