We understand now, we’ve been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSWhere annual elections end where slavery begins.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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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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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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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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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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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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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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