Quotes of the day: Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams (née Smith; November 22 [O.S. November 11] 1744 – October
28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United
States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth. She was the
first Second Lady of the United States, and the second First Lady of the
United States.
Adams is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while
he attended the Continental Congresses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
John frequently sought the advice of Abigail on many matters, and their
letters are filled with intellectual discussions on government and
politics. The letters serve as eyewitness accounts of the American
Revolutionary War home front. (Click
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all
men would be tyrants if they could.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that
correspond with them.
When will Mankind be convinced that true Religion is from the Heart,
between Man and his creator, and not the imposition of Man or creeds and
tests?
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private
ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations
to the public weal!
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!”
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than
your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the
Husbands.
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends,
lovers and husbands.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we
serve?
Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
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.
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.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few
words.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very
liable to be broken.
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.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have
learned women.
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and
attended to with diligence.
A people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King
let his people slip from him, he is no longer a King.
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our
forming false notions of things and persons.
When will Mankind be convinced that true Religion is from the Heart,
between Man and his creator, and not the imposition of Man or creeds and
tests?
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