If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSDo not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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!
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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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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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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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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