The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

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

I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension of Executive power; and I am committed against any attempt to rule the free people of this country by the power and the patronage of the Government itself.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.