Our Liberty Depends On Our Education, Our

I Am Commonly Opposed To Those Who Modestly Assume The Rank Of Champions Of Liberty, And Make A Very Patriotic Noise About The People. It Is The Stale Artifice Which Has Duped The World A Thousand Times, And Yet, Though Detected, It Is Still Successful. I Love Liberty As Well As Anybody. I Am Proud Of It, As The True Title Of Our People To Distinction Above Others; But . . . I Would Guard It By Making The Laws Strong Enough To Protect It.

Our Liberty Depends On Our Education, Our Laws, And Habits . . . It Is Founded On Morals And Religion, Whose Authority Reigns In The Heart, And On The Influence All These Produce On Public Opinion Before That Opinion Governs Rulers.

The House Is Composed Of Very Good Men, Not Shining, But Honest And Reasonably Well-informed, And In Time Will Be Found To Improve, And Not Much Inferior In Eloquence, Science, And Dignity, To The British Commons. They Are Patriotic Enough, And I Believe There Are More Stupid (as Well As More Shining) People In The Latter, In Proportion.

A Democracy Is A Volcano Which Conceals The Fiery Materials Of Its Own Destruction. These Will Produce An Eruption And Carry Desolation In Their Way.

We Have A Dangerous Trend Beginning To Take Place In Our Education. We're Starting To Put More And More Textbooks Into Our Schools. We've Become Accustomed Of Late Of Putting Little Books Into The Hands Of Children, Containing Fables And Moral Lessons. We're Spending Less Time In The Classroom On The Bible, Which Should Be The Principal Text In Our Schools. The Bible States These Great Moral Lessons Better Than Any Other Man-made Book.