An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance