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

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe."

"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."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."