I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith."

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.