A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.