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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

John Quincy Adams

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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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.
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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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