Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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