All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposit…

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the pl…

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Pl…

Derangement is the signature expression of the Great Backlash, a style of conservatism that first came snarling onto the national stage in response to the part…

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.