Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.