Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.