“A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.”

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Government is best which governs least.

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

Strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn it.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.