All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

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.