"There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a…"

"For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and ala…"

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government…"

"The free communication of thoughts and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of man: any citizen thus may sp…"

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abri…"

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree o…"

"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."

"The power of communication of thoughts and opinions is the gift of God, and the freedom of it is the source of all sc…"

"To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itsel…"

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."