Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Never use two words when one will do.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.