Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSThe will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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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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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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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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