I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule of what we are to read, and what we must believe?