But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he takes the side of Spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it.