The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.