If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

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

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.