Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

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

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!