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