Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS