The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.