If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMSYou will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
More John Quincy Adams Quotes
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Be a great speaker, become a leader.
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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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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.
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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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Above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.
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To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
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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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Virtue is not always amiable.
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Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.
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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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