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.’
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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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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