The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

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.

Individual liberty is individual power.

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

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