In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.