The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.