I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.