Be a great speaker, become a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSWhere annual elections end where slavery begins.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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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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Tyranny can scarcely be practiced upon a virtuous and wise people.
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If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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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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