A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.