Abigail Adams Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

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

  Abigail Adams

  Wedding, Husband, Women

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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

  Abigail Adams

  Broken Heart, Power, Broken Promises

  Letter to John Adams, 7 May 1776

• 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.'

  Abigail Adams

  Wisdom, Power, Men

  Abigail Adams, John P. Kaminski (2009). “The Quotable Abigail Adams”, p.185, Harvard University Press

• The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

  Abigail Adams

  Power, Rights, Government

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.81

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