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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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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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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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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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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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