From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTry and fail, but don’t fail to try.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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