I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.