My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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