None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

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

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.