It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed…Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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In the new code of laws, which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
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| Birth: | 22nd November, 1744 |
| Death: | 28th October, 1818 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | First Lady |
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth. She was the first Second Lady of the United States, and the second First Lady of the United States. Adams is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses. John frequently sought the advice of Abigail on many matters, and their letters are filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics. The letters serve as eyewitness accounts of the American Revolutionary War home front.
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