Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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