The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.