Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.