"the public debt is the greatest of dangers to be feared."
"if it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution, taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing."
"We have traded in one tyrant for 237."
"I view it as a source of boundless patronage to the Executive, jobbing to Members of Congress and their friends, and a bottomless abyss of public money."
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned--this is the sum..."
"Were we directed from Washington when to sew and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
"The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government."
"Congress was not intended to know the secrets of the executive branch."
"If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter."
"The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties."
"I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War."
"His influence in negotiations for peace may be of value to the United States should arrangements of any sort affecting them be contemplated by other powers in the present extraordinary state of the wo..."