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.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSYou will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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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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From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
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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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Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Go on and improve in everything worthy.
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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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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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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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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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
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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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Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
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