Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSA politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
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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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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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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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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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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I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
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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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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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