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.

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

All authority belongs to the people.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

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.