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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom ...

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When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he...

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Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not...

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No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made...

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...

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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the pri...

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection th...

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles...

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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon m...

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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real t...

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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is f...

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The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between t...

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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...

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Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...

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John Quincy Adams

U.S. President

Born: 1767-07-11

Died: 1848-02-28

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a senator and member of the House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. John Quincy Adams was the son of former President John Adams and Abigail Adams.More