My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWell, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
-
-
I acknowledge myself a unitarian
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
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 ADAMS -
I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
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
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
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
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS