The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.

To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.