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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.

John Quincy Adams

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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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Promise Slave
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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Goodness Preservation Yourself
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
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Book Children Exception Myself See Wife
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Knowledge Liberty People
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Body Death Language Ourselves
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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Alone Lost Principle Reflection Vote
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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Beyond God Greatness Law Power Service Soul Thinking
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Difficult Inspirational Patience Perseverance
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Forever Liberty Lost
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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Earth Government Happiness People Willing

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