You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator....We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them

Abigail Adams
Also known as: Abigail Smith Adams, Abigail Smith
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Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and is retrospectively perceived as the second First Lady of the United States; the term was not coined until after she had died. She was also the mother of John Quincy Adams.

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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.