Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property ... He must be taught to amass wealth, but it must be only to increase his power of contributing to the wants and demands of the state... [Education] can be done effectually only by the interference and aid of the Legislature.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

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