Virtue is not always amiable.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTry and fail, but don’t fail to try.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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