"Who but shall learn that freedom is the……" — John Quincy Adams
"Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found."
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John Quincy Adams
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118 Quotes by John Quincy Adams
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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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Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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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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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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