No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.