Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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