To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

This is the last of earth! I am content.