Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.

One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.