"The great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments."
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
"The rights of persons and the rights of property have never been found incompatible."