QUOTES

Quotes by Abigail Adams

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
- Abigail Adams
"Great necessities call out great virtues."
- Abigail Adams
"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
- Abigail Adams
"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
- Abigail Adams
"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entert..."
- Abigail Adams
"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 believ..."
- Abigail Adams
"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world."
- Abigail Adams
"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters ..."
- Abigail Adams
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
- Abigail Adams
"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever graspi..."
- Abigail Adams