The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

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

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.