It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.