To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSAlways 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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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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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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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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