But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time.