the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.