Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMSYou cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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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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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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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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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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