Abigail Adams Quotes About Power

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Letter to John Adams, 7 May 1776

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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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

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

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