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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

John Quincy Adams

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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
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