Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThat your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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