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.
- Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- 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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- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.