We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

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.

Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.