I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.