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 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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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