“My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.”

But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

These are 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.

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.

In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

Find a partner, commit to taking action, and hold each other accountable.

I like being responsible for myself.

Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.

Leadership is stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable!

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.