A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.