“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcru…” — Thomas Jefferson

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

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

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.