The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.