To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.

When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.