If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIn 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.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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