Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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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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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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