With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.