Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.