In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.