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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

John Quincy Adams

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Courage Difficult Inspirational Magic Perseverance
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Believe Honesty Man Philosophy Worst
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.
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Beyond God Greatness Law Power Service Soul Thinking
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
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Book Children Exception Myself See Wife
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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Justice Man War
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Alone Principle Vote
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is, the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
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Existence Greatness Knowledge Life
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
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
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
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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Man Myself Nation Politics
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
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
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
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
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
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Failure Inspirational
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
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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Desire Discover Early Heart Man Praise Recognition
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
It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Appearance Light Mortal Purpose

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