All power is inherent in the people.

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

It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.