Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSWhere 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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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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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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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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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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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS