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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

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

Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

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.

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