Quotes by : Abigail Adams

It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed.....

But the heavy stroke which most of all distresses me is my dear Mother. I cannot overcome my too selfish....

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows....

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they....