Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSPatience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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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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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.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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