“Great necessities call out great virtues.”
“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure.”
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
“I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.”
“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.”
“A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people.”
“The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.”
“We have only to persevere, and we shall triumph at last.”
“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.”
“Power and liberty are like heat and moisture; where they are well mixed, everything prospers.”
“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live.”
“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
“We have too many high-sounding words and too few actions to correspond with them.”
“I will not consent to have my soul put in a straitjacket.”
“Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues.”
“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands.”
“No man can be a politician except he has courage and integrity.”
“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.”
“The right to liberty is the foundation of all happiness.”
“To be good and do good is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”
“Justice, humanity, and benevolence are the duties which flow from man to man.”
“Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom.”
“We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.”
“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what is right.”
“How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition!”
“Arbitrary power is very hard, but it is very liable to be broken.”
“Virtue and morality have fallen in the streets.”
“The passions are the winds that fill the sails of life.”
“Human nature, with all its infirmities and depravities, is still capable of great things.”
“We have not men fit for the times; we are deficient in genius and enterprise.”
“Thy spirit, independence, let me share!”
“The feelings of nature are natural and unchangeable.”
“The history of all ages shows that love is stronger than fear.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
“Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.”
“Let us consider ourselves as the conquerors, not the conquered.”
“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
“Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people.”
“Good habits are generally formed by resisting temptation.”
“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
“There is no eye equal to the eye of conscience.”
“A better place, I trust, in a better world.”
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear.”
“Knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted for it.”
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty.”
“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal struggle.”
“The influence of woman in society is like that of light in the world.”