We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids to enable such subtle bodies [air, light, &c.] to make a well-defined impression on organs as blunt as ours; that it is laudable to encourage investigation but to hold back conclusion.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.