I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

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

Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.