Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThese are the times when a genius wants to live.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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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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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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