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GOVERNMENT > first lady > Abigail Adams
I am more...
Vendor: GOVERNMENT
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.''
Source: Letter to John Adams, Nov. 27, 1775
-- Abigail Adams, (Nov 11 1744-1818), US first lady; Her prolific letter writing vividly portrayed the life of the young republic; only woman to be wife of one president and the mother to another.