"I do not know whether it is a greater proof of the wisdom or the folly of man, that he is so apt to be caught by the same bait, and to fall into the same snare, from generation to generation."

"The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us."

"Were I to enter on a newspaper, it should be to give the public generally a choice of all the productions of the human mind, which have been published."

"The will of the people, expressed by their suffrage, is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

"Nothing can be so execrable as a government of military force."