Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

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

I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education, and placing our rising generation on the level of our sister states (which they have proudly held heretofore), I was discharging the odious function of a physician pouring medicine down the throat of a patient insensible of needing it.