Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. - Abigail Adams

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. But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken — and notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet.

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

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