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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.

John Quincy Adams

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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
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
If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Deep Value World
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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Democracy Foundation Human Right Theory
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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Character Hands Nation Oneself War
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Beginning End Politics Slave
Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Book Children Exception Myself See Wife
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
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
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Alone Principle Vote
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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Experiment Myself Philosophy Preparation Result Science
We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
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Philosophy Understand
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
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Gratitude Leaving Soul Thinking

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