Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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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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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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