Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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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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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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