A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.