I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.

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