The strongest of all governments is that which is most free

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

I have determined never to remove a Secretary of the Treasury without communicating all the circumstances attending such removal to both Houses of Congress.

...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

There is no part of the means placed in the hands of the Executive which might be used with greater effect for unhallowed purposes than the control of the public press.