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

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

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

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

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.