Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.