Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSI read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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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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