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 every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.