More from Abigail Adams
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams I acknowledge myself a unitarian
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams These are the 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.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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!
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams
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Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
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More on bursting
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
Beverley NicholsBeverley Nichols But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
Barry GibbBarry Gibb There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich
