Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

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

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.