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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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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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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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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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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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