Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
ABIGAIL ADAMSA 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.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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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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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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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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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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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