He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?