"I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his capacity for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force."

"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we are about to present to the world, of the practicability of a decent and republican government, and of maintaining it in…"

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none."

"I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the produce of the superflux."