Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.