Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.