I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope.

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

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.