Virtue is not always amiable.
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.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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