Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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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It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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 cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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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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