From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
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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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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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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 cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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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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My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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