I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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.
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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 formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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.
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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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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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