Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium.