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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSWhat 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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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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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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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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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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