Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.