Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

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