One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.