Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSGo on and improve in everything worthy.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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