Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.