"Where annual elections end where slavery begins." — John Quincy Adams
"Where annual elections end where slavery begins."
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John Quincy Adams
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118 Quotes by John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams has 118 quotes on this site.
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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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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is…
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none…
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of…
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So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident…
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America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.
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Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God…
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From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and…
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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…
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More Annual Quotes
This quote is filed under Annual Quotes,
one of 170 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore…
— Robert Ballard
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover…
— Wendell Berry
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And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to…
— Hjalmar Branting
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
— Geraldine Brooks
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With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same…
— Bob Dole
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How can we vote for a bill [S.744] that our own CBO says will reduce average wages in America for…
— Jeff Sessions
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Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down,…
— Henry Ford
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If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The…
— Michael Showalter
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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks,…
— Mark Twain
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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen…
— Mark Twain
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