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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
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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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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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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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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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 Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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