The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.

Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.