Abigail Adams Quotes
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.
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Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?
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I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
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To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
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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, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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. … There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.