"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
-Abigail Adams
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"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.“
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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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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
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