The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned institutions ought to be the favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty . . . . What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of liberty and learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.