The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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