His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
John Quincy AdamsRead
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Interpretation
Prioritize your principles in decisions, even if you stand alone, for your convictions are never wasted.
This quote emphasizes the importance of voting based on one's principles, regardless of whether the outcome reflects those values. It suggests that acting according to one's beliefs brings a sense of fulfillment, reinforcing the idea that integrity and authenticity are more valuable than conforming to popular opinion.
In practice
During a political discussion emphasizing the importance of strong values.
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
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.
I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.
Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time.
Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.
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