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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.

John Quincy Adams

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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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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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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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