To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
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… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image