If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI acknowledge myself a unitarian
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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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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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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