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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

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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
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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Gratitude Leaving Soul Thinking
Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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People Practice Virtue Wisdom
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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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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Alone Lost Principle Reflection Vote
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
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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Man Myself Nation Politics
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
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
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Forever Liberty Lost
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Failure Inspirational

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