From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSLiberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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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.
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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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