If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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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.’
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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These are 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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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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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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