Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIf your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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