“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.”

“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. ”

“Men have differed in opinion, and been divided into parties by these opinions, from the first origin of societies; and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. the same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time. Whether the power of the people, or that of the (best men; nobles) should prevail, were questions which kept the states of Greece and rome in eternal convulsions...”

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

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

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

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