A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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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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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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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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