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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSDefeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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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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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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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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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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