Great necessities call out great virtues.

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Great necessities call forth great leaders.

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

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

Abigail Adams in letter to John Adams, 1774
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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

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

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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

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

Abigail Adams in Letter to John Quincy Adams, May 8, 1780
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

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