Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect up to an Ultimate Cause-a Fabricator of all things, from matter and motion-their Preserver and Regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms-and their Regenerator into new and other forms.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

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

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.