John Quincy Adams

(517 votes)   Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

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(355 votes)   I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams

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(288 votes)   Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams
1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

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(279 votes)   Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams
1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

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(265 votes)   Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams
1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

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(262 votes)   Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

John Quincy Adams
1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

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(229 votes)   Thomas Jefferson -- still surv…

John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(187 votes)   [Speaking about July 4th] It ought to be solemnized by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more."

John Adams
2nd President of the United States

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(186 votes)   Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''

John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(185 votes)   The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(180 votes)   Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.

John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(161 votes)   There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams
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(150 votes)   Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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(142 votes)   A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

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(133 votes)   The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

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