Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.