If Any Of My Men Kill Prisoners,

We Can Travel Longer, Night And Day, Without Losing Our Spirits Than Almost Any Persons We Ever Met.

Perhaps The Happiest Moment Of My Life Was Then, When I Saw That Our Line Didn't Break And That The Enemy's Did.

General Education Is The Best Preventive Of The Evils Now Most Dreaded. In The Civilized Countries Of The World, The Question Is How To Distribute Most Generally And Equally The Property Of The World. As A Rule, Where Education Is Most General The Distribution Of Property Is Most General.... As Knowledge Spreads, Wealth Spreads. To Diffuse Knowledge Is To Diffuse Wealth. To Give All An Equal Chance To Acquire Knowledge Is The Best And Surest Way To Give All An Equal Chance To Acquire Property.

My Father And Mother In 1817 Were Forty-nine Days On The Road With Their Emigrant Wagons [from Vermont] To Ohio. More Than Two Days For Each Hour That I Spent In The Same Journey.

No Person Connected With Me By Blood Or Marriage Will Be Appointed To Office.