Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.
I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.