The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

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

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

I like to see the people awake and alert.

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.