The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

The only security of all is in a free press.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.