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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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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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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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And 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.
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