Abigail Adams Quotes
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We are a happy land, but a grumbling nation.
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It is not better to die the last of British freemen than live the first of British slaves.
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[On wealth] Wealth suddenly acquired is seldom balanced with discretion.
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We must struggle hard first, and find many difficulties to encounter, but we may be a great and powerful nation if we will; industry and frugality, wisdom, and virtue must make us so.
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We have the means of being the freest and the happiest people upon the globe.
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We cannot be happy without being free…
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We cannot be free without being secure in our property…
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We cannot be secure in our property if without our consent others may as by right take it away.
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Our enemies were cut down like the grass before the sythe
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The suffering virtue of individuals if recorded upon the faith page of history will astonish future ages, and demands from the present gratitude and veneration.
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Having forced us to draw the sword we are determined never to sheathe it the slaves of Britain’s.
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I have always found them return to the right path, as soon as they have had time to weigh, consider and reflect.
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[On Paris] Sixty thousand prostitutes in one city. Some of them the most beautiful of their sex!!!
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I’ve made the golden rule mine.
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You will not teach them what to think, but how to think, and they will then know how to act.
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It is a very difficult and hazardous undertaking to give advice in affairs of this kind particularly where the affections are warmly interested, the adviser generally loses the friendship of one or other of the parties.
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Having put your hand to the plough, you must not look back, nor ought you I think to wish you had not.
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I know American capable of anything she undertakes with spirit and vigour. Brave in distress, serene in conquest, drowsy when at rest, is her true characteristic.
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I know they [Great Britain] abuse America because they fear her…
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America is the theatre for a young fellow who has any ambition of distinguishing himself in knowledge and literature.
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[On marriage] A woman may forgive the man she loves an indiscretion, but never a neglect.
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Time, which improves youth, every year furrows the brow of age.
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The service of this government is not a bed of roses, in any department of it.
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[On politics] A nation which does not respect itself, cannot expect to receive it from others.
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Gentlemen are not half as particular as the Ladies are in their details.
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No woman of sense will ever make her husband an object of ridicule; for in proportion as she lowers him she lessens herself.
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[On public service] Public business must always be done by somebody – if wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.
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[On character] The habits of a vigorous mind are informed in contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this.
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[On women] If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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You have frequently flattered men with an assurance that my advice is not unacceptable to you.
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It is an old Adage, that a man at 30 must be either a fool or a physician. Though you have not arrived to that age, you would do well to trust to the advice and experience of those who have…
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Advising to a measure against which some objections arise, in case of failure the adviser must bear the blame.
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You can do much service to your sons by your letters, and advice. You will not teach them what to think, but how to think, and they will then know how to act.
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I think America is taking steps towards a reform, and I know her capable of whatever she undertakes.
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I know they [Great Britain] abuse America because they fear her, and every effort to render her unpopular is a proof of it. They go on deceiving themselves, thinking they can keep us low and poor, but all the time they are making us industrious, frugal, wise and great I hope.
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How little cause of complaint have the inhabitants of the United States, when they compare their situation, not with despotic monarchies, but with this land of freedom!
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[On the great things about living in America] The ease with which honest industry may acquire property in America, the equal distribution of justice to the poor as well as the rich, and the personal liberty they enjoy…
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A civil war is of all wars the most dreadful.
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Did ever any kingdom or state regain their liberty, when once it was invaded without bloodshed? I cannot think of it without horror.
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We are told that all the misfortunes of Sparta were occasioned by their too great solicitude for present tranquility, and by an excessive love of peace they neglected the means of making it sure and lasting.
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