... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.