I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

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.