From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSWe understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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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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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.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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