Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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