If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.