"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true”
"We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principals of the Ten Commandments of God."