The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.