Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...
Posterity – you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.