Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.