Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.
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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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