You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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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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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
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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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