The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

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

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.