no people can be both ignorant and free.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.