An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.