I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.