The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSThe 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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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