Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSNo man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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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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