Defeat appears to me preferable to total inaction.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSWhere annual elections end where slavery begins.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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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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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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