Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.