Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both

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.

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?