“Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.”

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.

Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.

Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.

How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!

They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.

It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.

Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.

Rousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.

As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.

And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty – they will prove that they have less mind than man.

Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.

She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

A thought-provoking recipe for reclaiming America’s heritage of liberty and self-governance.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

I think we received wide support from the public on this point.