The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government

To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to

Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions

Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.