I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSLiberty, once lost, is lost forever.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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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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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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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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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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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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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
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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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