He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.