Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.