The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

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.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

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

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.