We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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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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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 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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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