Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSGo on and improve in everything worthy.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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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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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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