Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.