The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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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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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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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 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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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