William Adams

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Quote	Categories	Rating
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."	Death, Destruction, Freedom
"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be."	Happiness, Joy
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."	Education, Love, School
"Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity."	Age, Men, Power
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."	Ambition, Art, Desires
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day."	Change, Knowledge, Men
"Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity."	Age, Men, Power
"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Age
"Faith is a continuation of reason."	Faith

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Ambition	Art	Change
Death	Desires	Destruction
Education	Evil	Faith
Freedom	Friends	Good
Happiness	Joy	Knowledge
Liberty	Life	Love
Men	Power	School
Sin	Teaching	Time
Wants	Wisdom