Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

Those are governed best who are governed least.