A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Our people shall be free

Those are governed best who are governed least.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.