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

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.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. Iv, p. 327).

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