Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat necessities call out great virtues.
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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