Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSNo man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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.
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If 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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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