I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAlways vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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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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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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