"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."

"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."

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

"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."

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

"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?"

"The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."

"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

"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."

"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."

"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."

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

"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."

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

"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."

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

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."