Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

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