Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.