I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSGo on and improve in everything worthy.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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