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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.

John Quincy Adams

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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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Promise Slave
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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Gratitude Leaving Soul Thinking
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Action Dream Inspirational Leadership Learning Yourself
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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Goodness Preservation Yourself
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
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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Existence Fundamental Independence Principle Slave Truth Wrong
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Alone Principle Vote
Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
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Experiment Myself Philosophy Preparation Result Science
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Failure Inspirational
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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Man Myself Nation Politics
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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