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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSFrom the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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