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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.

John Quincy Adams

Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Greatness Leadership
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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Experience Future Lesson Past
Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Appearance Defeat
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Alone Company Poet Yourself
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
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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Goodness Preservation Yourself
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
No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Freedom Imperfection Life Man Weakness
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
Virtue is not always amiable.
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One Liner Virtue
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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Destroy Freedom Herself Independence Search
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Promise Slave
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Action Dream Inspirational Leadership Learning Yourself
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
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

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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