Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.