I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSGo on and improve in everything worthy.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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