My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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I 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.’
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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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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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