Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.

The more we bestow the richer we become.

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.

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

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.