Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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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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A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
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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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