The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.