These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThere is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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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.
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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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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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