“There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.”

“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government...”

“A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.”

“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”

“I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.”

“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may”