No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSVirtue is not always amiable.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are 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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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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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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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