If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The only security of all is in a free press.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.