Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

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

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.