Abigail Adams Quotes

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

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.

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.