We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.

Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.