"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth, and the Son of Righteousness in triumph amongst all nations."

"Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge."

"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."

"However, political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be e…"

"The consideration that human happiness and the preservation of our republican institutions are so essentially linked together, that there is no room for doubt or hesitation."