I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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