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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI acknowledge myself a unitarian
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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