"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."
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."