Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.