“Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?”

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

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.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.