Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.