The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Without books, I would certainly die.