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 ADAMSI begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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