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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

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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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Heaven Herself Myself Success Wrong
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
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
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Alone Principle Vote
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
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
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Action Dream Inspirational Leadership Learning Yourself
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

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