I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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