If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.