ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.