The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.