I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.