Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Force cannot give right.

In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write. It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual.