posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

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.'

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

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.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for