If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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