"I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but …"

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket no…"

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its wounds and restore it to a sound and healthy state."

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."