From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSGratitude, 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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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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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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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