Abigail Adams

“The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.”

“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.”

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

“Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for”

“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”

“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

“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.'”

“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”

“Great necessities call out great virtues.”

“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”

“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”

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