Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

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

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.