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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSIt was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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 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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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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