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.
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.
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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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 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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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