Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

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254 Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
872 America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
268 All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
900 Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
897 Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

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