A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.