The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

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

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.

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.