“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”

“In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance”

“There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

“All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

“While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.”

“The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”

“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”