120 Quotes by Abigail Adams

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

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.

I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could… that your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

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.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.