No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.