The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.