Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.