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.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.