Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.