No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIf conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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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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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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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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