Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.