Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.

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

Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.