A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.