History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.