Freedom Quote by John Quincy Adams

“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.”

John Quincy Adams

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About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have…

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...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is,…

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A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

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To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

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The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

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Whoever tells the best story wins.

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Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

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The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

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“If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

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