Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.

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.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God