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Quote by Abigail Adams
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and

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

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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

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

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. – Abigail Adams

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What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. – Alexander Graham Bell

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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. – Thomas Hobbes

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