Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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