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

Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.

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.

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

Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.