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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

John Quincy Adams

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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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