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

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

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