Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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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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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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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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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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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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