The States are nations.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Instruct the mothers of the French people.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions