The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.

The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory.