In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSNo man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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