Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSThus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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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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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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