Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSBe a great speaker, become a leader.
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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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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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