When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the Old World is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath…

The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. 'Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent-of at least one eighth…

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at h…

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.