"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is to their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of educat…"

"I think myself that we are over-governed, and that the best government is that which governs least."

"I consider the people who constitute a society or nation as the source of all authority in that nation."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"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."