Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSDemocracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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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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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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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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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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