The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.