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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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