"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of educat…"

"I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his capacity for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force."

"The operations of the executive power are generally for the public good, and when they are not, they are generally checked by the Legislature."

"I cannot live without books."

"The will of the people, expressed by their suffrage, is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."