A room without books is like a life without meaning.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?