» Never spend your money before you have earned it.
» Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
» My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
» Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
» When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
» An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
» There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
» Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
» Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
» I sincerely believe 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 swindling futurity on a large scale.