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

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.