Thomas Jefferson — "The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constit…"

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."

"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."

"It is time enough for the rightful purposes of government for its officers to show that no one can be trusted."

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"I have looked on man, in the course of my life, as a chemical analysis might look on a compound substance."