“I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith.”
“The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.”
“To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.”
“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”
“Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
- William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence
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