Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The happiness of society is the end of government.