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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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