Abigail Adams Quotes
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams A people fired with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams 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.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams