The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.

The merchant has no country .

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.