"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather-bed."

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."

"I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but …"

"The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us."

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories."