I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.