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

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}

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.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

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.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.