I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.