"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers."
"These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it."
"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it."