Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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 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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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