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Abigail Adams Inspirational Quotes (58)

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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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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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Every object is beautiful in motion a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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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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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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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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