My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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