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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Beginning End Politics Slave
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
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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Man Myself Nation Politics
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
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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Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
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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Eyes Myself Reading See
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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Action Improvement Mindset Moments Myself Time
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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Character Hands Nation Oneself War
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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Philosophy Understand
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Heaven Herself Myself Success Wrong
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Failure Inspirational
Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Book Children Exception Myself See Wife
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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Beyond God Greatness Law Power Service Soul Thinking
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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Charity Compassionate Human Man
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Knowledge Liberty People

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