"...the science of calculation also is indispensable..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.”

“We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.”

“In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.”

“All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.”

“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.”

“... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.”

“The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.”

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.”

“The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.”