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

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.