This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government.