The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity