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

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.