Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.