Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.

The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.