When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.