"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."
-John Quincy Adams
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"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.“
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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
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"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."
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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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"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."
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"But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm."
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"Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone."
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"You are forever alone."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
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