If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

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.