The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

One man with courage is a majority.