A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI 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.’
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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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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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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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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