Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMSLet your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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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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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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 reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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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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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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