I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...

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

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.