The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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