Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMSA patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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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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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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