He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

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.

We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.