The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

One man with courage is a majority.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.