"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."
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."