“To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny”

“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. ... The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.”

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”