That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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