Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John...
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Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams
Source: Abigail Adams: Letters
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
Source: Abigail Adams: Letters
“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.”
“When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what”
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.”
Source: Abigail Adams: Letters
“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.”
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“I acknowledge myself a unitarian”
Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams
“A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.”
Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams
Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.”
Source: Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution: With a Memoir of Mrs. Adams
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams
Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams