The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

All men & women are created equal

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The strength and power of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resistance.

Virtue is not hereditary.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

It is error only, and not the truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.