The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

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.

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy... All you need is love.

I am a little extrovert.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.