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 ADAMSThe house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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