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.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

ours are the only farmers who can read Homer

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.