Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSMy toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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