If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

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

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We might have been a free and great people together.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.