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    Abigail Adams Quotes

    American wife of John Adams 1764

    Quotes by Abigail Adams

    • Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
    • Great necessities call forth great leaders.
    • Great necessities call out great virtues.
    • Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
    • We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
    • Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
      1780
    • 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.
      letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
    • We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
      letter to John Adams, 1774
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