"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions, have a bias to look to the civil arm for support, and to awe with civil penalties."

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"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."

"I find that the love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable."

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretence of taking care of them."