Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAmerica, 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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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 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, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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