My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWe have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIt 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
ABIGAIL ADAMSWell, 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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIs it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMSDeliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMSTo be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
ABIGAIL ADAMS