It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.