No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and to provide that none shall be inculcated which are incompatible with those on which the Constitutions of this State, and of the United States were genuinely based, in the common opinion; and for this purpose it may be necessary to point out specially where these principles are to be found legitimately developed.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.