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

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an excha…"

"The natural right of a man to impart his ideas to others is as sacred as his right to think at all."

"The only security a free people can have for the faithful observance of their constitution and laws, is to be found in a right of taxation."

"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."