If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.