The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Titles do not count with posterity.