Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.