 Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. |
| There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. |
| Taste cannot be controlled by law. |
| The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. |
| It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. |
| An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. |
| Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. |
| The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. |
| Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. |
| It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. |
| If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. |
| When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. |
