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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

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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Goodness Preservation Yourself
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
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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Action Improvement Mindset Moments Myself Time
My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Myself Ourselves Right Success
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
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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Character Hands Nation Oneself War
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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Existence Fundamental Independence Principle Slave Truth Wrong
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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Philosophy Understand
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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People Practice Virtue Wisdom
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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Experiment Myself Philosophy Preparation Result Science
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
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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Beyond God Greatness Law Power Service Soul Thinking
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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Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Beginning End Politics Slave

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