A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy and to read what he pleases.