Abigail Smith Adams Quotes (4 Quotes)

I can not say that I think you very generous to the Ladies, for whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to Men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over Wives.

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.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.

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