How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
ABIGAIL ADAMSAnd 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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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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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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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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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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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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