He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.