Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMSPosterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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!
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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