It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.