“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”

“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”

“The only security of all is in a free press.”

“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.”

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.”

“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”

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