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May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
John Quincy Adams
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John Quincy Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1767
Born: July 11
Died: 1848
Died: February 23
6Th U.S. President
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Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
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However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones
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This is the last of earth! I am content.
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The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.
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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
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I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.
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