A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

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 most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.