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

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

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

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.