The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.