Abigail Adams Quotes

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

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

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  If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Memorable, Equality

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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  Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

  Abigail Adams

  Perseverance, 4th Of July, May

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE

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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.

  Abigail Adams

  Integrity, Honor, Littles

  "Character and the IRS" by Terry Newell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2013.

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• Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

  Abigail Adams

  Disappointment, Unhappiness, Arise

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.5

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  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.

  Abigail Adams

  Views, Numbers, Intelligence

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

  Abigail Adams

  Communication, Language Words, Diversity

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

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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?

  Abigail Adams

  Real, Men, Moral

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• I desire you would 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. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

  Abigail Adams

  Sex, Husband, Giving Up

  "Familiar Letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams" edited by Charles Francis Adams, (p. 147), 1875.

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• No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

  Abigail Adams

  Hate, Shoes, Complaining

  "The Quotable Abigail Adams".

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• To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

  Abigail Adams

  Men, Few Words, Duty

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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

  Abigail Adams

  Feet, Forever, Accomplish

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• History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

  Abigail Adams

  Men, Hands, Historical

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• My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

  Abigail Adams

  Son, Action, Remember

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95

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• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Heart, Character

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• If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Mean, Vanity

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.153, UPNE

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• The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

  Abigail Adams

  Challenges, Mind, Habit

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• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Hero, Mean

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.153, UPNE

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• 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.

  Abigail Adams

  Kings, Fall, People

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.127, UPNE

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• May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

  Abigail Adams

  Mind, May, Steps

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.199

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• What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

  Abigail Adams

  Powerful, Details, Kingdoms

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.197

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• Great necessities call out great virtues.

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Retirement, Women

  Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

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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.

  Abigail Adams

  Country, People, Liberty

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• My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Losing A Loved One, Heart

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.90, UPNE

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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.

  Abigail Adams

  Father, Blessing, Simplicity

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

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