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.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

Thomas Jefferson survives.