Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSTo be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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These are the 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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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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