Adams, Abigail

Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution


• How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice oursel...
• That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no disput...
• I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous s...
• If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who ever...
• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in man...
• The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit ...
• ...I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon g...
in a letter reprinted in The Feminist Papers


• I long to hear that you have declared an independancy [sic]—and by the way in the new Code of Laws w...
• ... whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon...
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