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.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.