"And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
"If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."