We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.