I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.

It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.