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American
-
First Lady
November 22
, 1744 -
October 28
, 1818
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
Education
,
Learning
,
Chance
,
Diligence
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
Care
,
Voice
,
Attention
,
Rebellion
,
Will
Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
Great
,
Out
,
Virtues
,
Call
,
Necessities
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams
Service
,
Out
,
Serve
,
Mankind
,
Ourselves
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
Wisdom
,
Great
,
Experience
,
Fruit
,
Out
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
Power
,
Men
,
Hands
,
Remember
,
Tyrants
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
Words
,
Them
,
Many
,
Actions
,
Few
,
Too
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams
Broken
,
Power
,
Hard
,
Things
,
Like
,
Most
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams
Women
,
Heroes
,
Mean
,
Learned
,
Should
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
Intelligence
,
View
,
Person
,
Always
,
Same
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams
Looking
,
World
,
Rest
,
You
,
Little
,
Like
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.'
Abigail Adams
Man
,
I Am
,
Power
,
Dangerous
,
More
,
Like
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.
Abigail Adams
Mother
,
Knowledge
,
Thought
,
She
,
Afraid
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.
Abigail Adams
Life
,
Man
,
Believe
,
Think
,
Calm
,
Action
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