“The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.”

I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!

Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute

Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.

But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.

The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!

…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you’d gone a long way toward finding your peace.

It doesn’t take me long to write songs.

We forget the conditions – not only in slavery – but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African Americans from economic opportunity. Or we forget today’s incarceration rates, and educational and housing discrimination; all of these things.

And so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.

I like “As Long As You Love Me” and “Boyfriend” by Justin Bieber. It gets you moving – you just can’t help it! And “Teach Me How to Dougie” gets Zendaya and I every time.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.