Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.