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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 Adams

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 ADAMS

Determine Equality Foment Memorable Paid Particular Rebellion Women
A 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.
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Country Emulation Good Liberty Noble People
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Blessing Children Country Family Heaven Ornament
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Difficulty Great July May Perseverance Surmounted
O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Devil Eye Heart Read Time Wicked
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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Calm Character Endurance Genius Life Wish
A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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Fall King People Remain. Longer Slip
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.
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Degrade Demoralize Hand Historical Innocent Man Power Woven
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 ADAMS

Government Long People Restraint Stacked Submit
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Comprise Duty Few Good Man Whole Word
The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Barbarism Ignorance Level Place Slavery Tenant Wood
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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Daughter Empowerment Eve Female Mother Severely Smarted
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Hand Husband Power Unlimited
What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Accounting Fancy Meat One
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Hero Learn Mean Perhaps Philosopher Statemen Vanity Women
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Arise Disappointment False Forming Notion Unhappiness

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