The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.