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


John Quincy Adams

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JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My ...
JOHN ADAMS Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the...
JOHN ADAMS Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in h...
JOHN ADAMS Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found with...
JOHN ADAMS The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, th...
JOHN ADAMS