Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

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

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?

It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

No man can see his own prejudices.

... 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.