Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

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.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.