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

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

One generation cannot bind another.