The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.