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 for full article)
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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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