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.

Is it to be expected that the Southern States will deliver themselves bound hand and foot to the Eastern States? A few rich merchants in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York could thereby monopolise the staples of the Southern States and reduce their value.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

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.