By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.