I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?