If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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