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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

John Quincy Adams

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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise 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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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