I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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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 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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