No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.