I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy and to read what he pleases.

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.