Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.