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 ADAMSIf we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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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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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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