No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPatience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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