May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI 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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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