23 Quotes by Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was an influential figure during the American Revolution and the early years of the United States. She was a writer, a political advisor, and an advocate for women's rights. She is perhaps best known for her correspondence with her husband, John Adams, who would become the second President of the United States. In her letters, she urged him to "remember the ladies" and to include their interests in the new government. She was also a strong advocate for education and believed that women should have access to the same opportunities as men. Her legacy as a pioneer for women's rights continues to inspire generations of women today. (Bio)
Abigail Adams Quotes
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. (Meaning)
My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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
Great necessities call out great virtues.
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. (Meaning)
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
― Abigail Adams Quotes
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