When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.