You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.