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

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.