The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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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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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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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