But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.