All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams
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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.
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
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