Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTry and fail, but don’t fail to try.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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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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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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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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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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