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

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.