Virtue is not always amiable.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSLiberty 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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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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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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