The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.