Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSMy toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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