Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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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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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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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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