No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIt was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the 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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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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 conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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