Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPower 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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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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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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