No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.