To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSFrom the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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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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