Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.