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 ADAMS
The 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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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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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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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