Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.