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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.

John Quincy Adams

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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Beyond God Greatness Law Power Service Soul Thinking
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
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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Eyes Myself Reading See
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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Charity Compassionate Human Man
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Beginning End Politics Slave
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
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Man Myself Nation Politics
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
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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Character Hands Nation Oneself War
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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Alone Lost Principle Reflection Vote
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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Action Improvement Mindset Moments Myself Time
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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Earth Government Happiness People Willing

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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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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