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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSAnd 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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