The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

These are the days that try man's heart.

The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.