A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSYou will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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