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.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.