To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAlways vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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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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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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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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