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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.

John Quincy Adams

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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Heaven Herself Myself Success Wrong
Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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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Eyes Myself Reading See
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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