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.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

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.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.