Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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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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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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