Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal can be consistently made from that remedy by those who were and still profess to be parties to it, but the appeal to the parties themselves having an authority above the Constitution or to the law of nature & of nature's God.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.