Abigail Adams Quotes
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
Adams, Abigail. "Letter to John Adams, 27 November 1775." Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 1, edited by L. H. Butterfield, Harvard University Press, 1963, p. 329.
She was responding to the moderator who introduced her stating that perhaps she would become the first President of the new Iraq government. Her response was given with a smile and she was half joking and half serious. See {618434}.
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States, and is now designated as the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women to be married to one U.S. president and the mother of another.
