the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.