Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAlways vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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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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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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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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I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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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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