“Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes“

“You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it.“

”We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

”Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge...“