“All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.”

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?