America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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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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