Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.