The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.