Go on and improve in everything worthy.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIf 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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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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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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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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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