Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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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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