Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.