Abigail Adams Quote

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


Letter to Elizabeth Shaw (1784), quoted in John Adams (2001) by David McCullough, p. 310


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

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

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

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