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
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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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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