Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.