Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

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

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.