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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.

John Quincy Adams

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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Destroy Freedom Herself Independence Search
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
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
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
Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Greatness Leadership
Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Improvement Worthy
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Myself Poet Warrior
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
It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Appearance Light Mortal Purpose
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
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Goodness Right Spiritual
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Deep Value World
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
My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Myself Ourselves Right Success
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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Charity Compassionate Human Man

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