MondayJul 06, 2026
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
I can not say that I think you very generous to the Ladies, for whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to Men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over Wives.
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.
I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And 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.... 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.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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!'
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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