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

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.