“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

“If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it."[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]”

“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”

“Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.”

“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”

“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.”