If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice