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" Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. "

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" The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state. "

" A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. "

" The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. "

" What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. "

" Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "

" Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. "

" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

" All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. "

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. "

" In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. "

" The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. "

" The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. "

" The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. "

" Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. "

" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

" Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. "

" War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. "

" Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. "

" The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. "

" Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. "

" The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. "

" If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. "

" As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. "

" No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. "

" I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. "

" A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. "

" The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. "