We may add to the great honor of science and the arts, that their natural effect is, by illuminating public opinion, to erect it into a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame |
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. |
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform |
We must do our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies |
We never repent of having eaten too little. |
We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not |
We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever |
We seldom report of having eaten too little. |
We shall keep the people on our side by keeping ourselves in the right |
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter |
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable |
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. |
Were we to act but in cases where no contrary opinion of a lawyer can be had, we should never act |
What a cruel reflection that a rich country cannot long be a free one. |
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra |