In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.