Abigail Adams Men Quotations

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.'

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 am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature ...

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

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.

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

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

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.