If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.