The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
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". . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
"Everything yields to diligence."
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."
"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order."