Successfully reframing the climate debate in the United States from one based on environmental values to one based on health values...holds great promise to help American society better understand and appreciate the risks of climate change.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.