Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.