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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.

John Quincy Adams

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Alone Principle Vote
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
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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Man Myself Nation Politics
Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Greatness Leadership
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Failure Inspirational
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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Gratitude Leaving Soul Thinking
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Deep Value World
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Knowledge Liberty People
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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Action Improvement Mindset Moments Myself Time
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
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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Eyes Myself Reading See
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Earth Government Happiness People Willing
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
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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Existence Fundamental Independence Principle Slave Truth Wrong
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Democracy Foundation Human Right Theory

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