Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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