Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSBe a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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