I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.