The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

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

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor.