Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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