When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.