Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.