preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.