I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.