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.
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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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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