Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.