If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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If 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.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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