The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

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

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.