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.
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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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