The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery. - Thomas Jefferson

It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.