Facts about Abigail Adams
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Abigail Adams was a famous First Lady from USA, who lived between December 22, 1744 and October 28, 1818.
Our collection contains 13 quotes who is written / told by Abigail, under the main topics: Education, Marriage, Power.
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Famous quotes by Abigail Adams (13)
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues"
"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"
"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them"
"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women"
"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"
"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"
"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe"
"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 necessities call out great virtues"
"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world"
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence"
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could"
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken"
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