Go on and improve in everything worthy.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSTo be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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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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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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