No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSLiberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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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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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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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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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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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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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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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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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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