Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

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?

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do not enable me to say I think integrity the characteristic of wealth. In general I believe the decisions of the people, in a body, will be more honest and more disinterested than those of wealthy men.

Every man has two countries: his own and France.