We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.