To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSWhere annual elections end where slavery begins.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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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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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.
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