If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
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.
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
How to make god laugh. Tell him your future plans.
The only alternative which every American thinks of is liberty or death.
It has come to pass that the longest sword must decide the contest.
“Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.”
“I must study Politics and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy.”
“There are two types of education… One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.”
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
“change is always hard, but we believe this is in their best interest too.”
“A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world”
Great necessities call forth great leaders.
“We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
“The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”
“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.