"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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."

"The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny, are to diffuse it generally among the people, and to give to all, in proportion to their interest in it, a proportionate sh…"