America, goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIt was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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