"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 hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

"I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the produce of the superflux."

"To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, …"

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."