LIBERTY For more information about the The law of the Creator, which invests every human Statehouse being with an inalienable title to , cannot MUSEUM be repealed by any interior law which asserts that visit our website at man is property. Salmon P. Chase American Jurist ohiostatehouse.org GALLERY

In America, a glorious fire has been lighted upon Photo: the altar of liberty. Keep it burning and let the QUOTES sparks from it fall on other altars, and light up in for Williams Washington George portrays Gibbs Anthony distant lands the fire of freedom. General William Henry Harrison OHIO STATEHOUSE If liberty and equality are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all 1 persons alike share in the government to the utmost. Aristotle COLUMBUS OH Greek Philosopher 43215

PARTICIPATION

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

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Updated: No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

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If women are to enjoy political suffrage they must be willing to assume their share of the making and enforcing of the laws of our government. Adelaide Sterling Ott

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WE THE PEOPLE INALIENABLE RIGHTS JUSTICE

The colonists struggled not only against the All men are, by nature, free and independent, and have The attainment of justice is the highest human armies of a great nation, but against the settled certain inalienable rights, among which are those of endeavor. opinions of mankind; for the world did not enjoying and defending life and liberty . . . . Florence E. Allen then believe that the supreme authority of Article I, Section 1, Bill of Rights to the Ohio Constitution American Jurist government could be safely intrusted to the guardianship of the people themselves. Let Ohio speak for human rights, for universal manhood The virtue of justice consists in moderation, President James A. Garfield suffrage, for fair and honest elections, for economy and as regulated by wisdom. purity in public affairs, for honest money and stable Aristotle We the People of the , in Order to government. Greek Philosopher form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, George Washington Williams insure domestic Tranquility, Provide for the Ohio House of Representatives All courts shall be open, and every person, common defence, promote the general Welfare, for an injury done . . . shall have remedy by due and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves The right to freedom is original in all the human race. course of law, and shall have justice administered and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Reverend John Rankin without denial or delay. Constitution for the United States of America. Ohio Abolitionist Article I, Section 16, Ohio Bill of Rights Preamble to the United States Constitution We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are Justice demands that all laws shall be made, We, the people of the State of Ohio, grateful created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator not for man, or for woman, but for mankind, and to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are that the same legal protection be afforded to the blessings and promote our common welfare, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. one sex as to the other. do establish this Constitution. Declaration of Independence Ohio Women’s Convention Preamble to the Ohio Constitution Betsey M. Cowles, President

EQUALITY KNOWLEDGE TOLERANCE

The best principles of our republic secure to all All who have meditated on the of governing mankind Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, its citizens a perfect equality of rights. have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. President Thomas Jefferson the education of youth. George Washington Carver Aristotle The only stable state is the one in which Greek Philosopher We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be all men are equal before the law. enemies. Though passion may have strained it must Aristotle Without information and knowledge the blessings of free not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords Greek Philosopher government cannot be long continued. of memory, stretching from every battlefield and Thomas Worthington patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all The concept of political equality . . . can only Ohio Governor over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the mean one thing—one person, one vote. Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, William O. Douglas Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to by the better angels of our nature. U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice good government and the happiness of mankind, schools President Abraham Lincoln and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. Article 3, Northwest Ordinance Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. Tecumseh Shawnee Leader

A handshake is more powerful than a fist. Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth