If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMay justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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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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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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I 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.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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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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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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