I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government), it would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.