Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSMove or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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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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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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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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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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