I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.