It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.