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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.

John Quincy Adams

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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Gratitude Leaving Soul Thinking
It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
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Action Improvement Mindset Moments Myself Time
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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Goodness Preservation Yourself
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
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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Charity Compassionate Human Man
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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Existence Fundamental Independence Principle Slave Truth Wrong
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Body Death Language Ourselves
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Courage Difficult Inspirational Magic Perseverance
My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Myself Ourselves Right Success
We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Philosophy Understand
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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Earth Government Happiness People Willing
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst

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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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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