The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.