Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

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