By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds..

There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through ….

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation..

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error..

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican..

Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment.

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuad….

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education..

Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him i….

The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all….

'Tis done. We have become a nation..

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep..

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them m….

Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medic….

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts..

If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morali….

Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather se….

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all ….

Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw ….

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution..

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of….