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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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