It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.