For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.