My main interest is to educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
I think that every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
The Anthem Which Was Performed in Westminster Abbey at the Funeral of Her most Sacred Majesty, Queen Caroline. Composed by Mr. Georg Friedrich Handel. Vol. II.
How much have cost us the evils that never happened!
I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.