Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liber…

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us …

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without att…

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we sh…

'Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.' -- Speech at the U…

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without ?violence 'democra…