We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMSO, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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 begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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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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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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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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