The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.