Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.