Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.