History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.