A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

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

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

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.

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.

The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.