"If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners."
Read quote
20 likes
Quote collection
Abigail Adams quotes (page 2 of 4)
62 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"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."
Read quote
17 likes
"What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind."
Read quote
15 likes
"A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?"
Read quote
15 likes
"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."
Read quote
14 likes
"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature."
Read quote
14 likes
"My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."
Read quote
14 likes
"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."
Read quote
12 likes
"posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors."
Read quote
12 likes
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
Read quote
11 likes
"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.'"
Read quote
10 likes
"Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents."
Read quote
9 likes
"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."
Read quote
9 likes
"History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active."
Read quote
9 likes
"The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties."
Read quote
8 likes
"Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands."
Read quote
7 likes
"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."
Read quote
7 likes
"The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight."
Read quote
7 likes
"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."
Read quote
7 likes
"May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps."
Read quote
7 likes