Occupation: Author Birth: 1798 Death: April 14, 1874
To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundame….
It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the ins….
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequen….
Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be so….
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any o….
It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth..
The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who….
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which h….
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable….
The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony..
Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only ….
Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together..
I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies..
Public influence is the real government of the world..
It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly..
Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL..