Abigail Adams Quotes

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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
• 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…
• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
• 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…
• Great necessities call out great virtues.
• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
• 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,…
• Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
• 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…
• 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…
• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of…
• The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
• A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will…
• I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
• My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
• posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
• To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
• These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a…

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