The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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.

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.