Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you... Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise ... and that exercise will make them habitual.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.