Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSRoll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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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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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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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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