Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.