By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.