Abigail Adams Quotes
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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.
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My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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.
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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.
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The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
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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.
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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.
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It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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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
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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.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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?
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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.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Abigail Adams
- Born: November 22, 1744
- Died: October 28, 1818
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States
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