We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.