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.

All men are created equal.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.