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" The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. "

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" What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? "

" It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. "

" Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. "

" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "

" Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. "

" Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. "

" A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. "

" The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. "

" A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. "

" War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. "

" Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. "

" Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. "

" As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. "

" To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. "

" What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? "

" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

" War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "

" The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. "

" The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. "

" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "

" There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. "

" The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. "

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. "

" Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "

" We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. "

" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "