From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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