This week’s question wanted to know who said “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.”
The answer is Abigail Adams in a letter to John Adams on 3/31/1776. If you get a moment look up some of her other quotes. Abigail was quite the spokeswoman for women’s rights.
The answer was found in the Oxford Reference Online collection. This reference tool provides quick reference and scholarly articles from a broad range of subjects in over 100 titles that include key titles from the Oxford Companion series and the complete Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Find Oxford Reference Online listed alphabetically under O on LAPL’s Research & Homework page (https://lapl.org/collections-resources/research-and-homework) and access it with your library card.
