My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPosterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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