"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…"

"Influence is not government."

"If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books."

"I consider the War as over, and I am preparing to return to that domestic walk of life, in which I have been so long happy."

"Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential tha…"