Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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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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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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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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 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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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