Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

& these haters try to knock me but they can't knock me off the hinges.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.