Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIf particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
-
-
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
These are the times when a genius wants to live.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
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.’
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
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
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
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 ADAMS -
O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS -
When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
ABIGAIL ADAMS






