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Abigail Adams QUOTES

Abigail Adams QUOTES

1 " 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 , My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

2 " You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. "

― Abigail Adams , The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

3 " My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. "

― Abigail Adams

4 " 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

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

― Abigail Adams

6 " ...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable 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. 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

7 " The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have, generally speaking, obstacles to prevent their roving. "

― Abigail Adams

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

― Abigail Adams

9 " I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. "

― Abigail Adams

10 " You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which I rather wish were erased, than conceal'd from you. Do not judge by this, that your opinion is an indifferent thing to me, (were it so, I should look forward with a heavey Heart,) but it is far otherways, for I had rather stand fair there, and be thought well of by Lysander than by the greater part of the World besides. I would fain hope that those faults which you discover, proceed more, from a wrong Head, than a bad Heart. E'er long May I be connected with a Friend from whose Example I may form a more faultless conduct, and whose benevolent mind will lead him to pardon, what he cannot amend. "

― Abigail Adams , The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

11 " 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 , The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

12 " But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act. "

― Abigail Adams

13 " We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. "

― Abigail Adams

14 " Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. "

― Abigail Adams , The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

15 " We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act. "

― Abigail Adams

16 " The theater has been called the pulse of the people. "

― Abigail Adams

17 " These are 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. "

― Abigail Adams

18 " I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never. "

― Abigail Adams , The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

19 " Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. "

― Abigail Adams , The Quotable Abigail Adams

20 " You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Studying.

In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn Wisdom and Virtue. You will see them represented, with all the Charms which Language and Imagination can exhibit, and Vice and Folly painted in all their Deformity and Horror.

You will ever remember that all the End of study is to make you a good Man and a useful Citizen.—This will ever be the Sum total of the Advice of your affectionate Father,

John Adams "

― Abigail Adams , The Letters of John and Abigail Adams