The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.