17 Quotations by Abigail Adams
- 1. Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

- 2. Great necessities call forth great leaders.

- 3. Great necessities call out great virtues.

- 4. I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action a ...

- 5. I can not say that I think you are very generous to the Ladies, for whilst you are proclaiming peace ...

- 6. I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

- 7. I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting poi ...

- 8. If much depends as is allowed upon the early education of youth and the first principles which are i ...

- 9. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, ...

- 10. If particular care is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not ...

- 11. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are f ...

- 12. Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

- 13. Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions a ...

- 14. Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from ...

- 15. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

- 16. We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

- 17. We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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