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

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.

The soil is the gift of God to the living.