He Is Not Well Bred, That Cannot

How Few There Are Who Have Courage Enough To Own Their Faults, Or Resolution Enough To Mend Them.

Outside Independence Hall When The Constitutional Convention Of 1787 Ended

The Poor Have Little; Beggars, None; The Rich, Too Much; Enough, Not One.

We Are More Thoroughly An Enlightened People, With Respect To Our Political Interests, Than Perhaps Any Other Under Heaven. Every Man Among Us Reads, And Is So Easy In His Circumstances As To Have Leisure For Conversations Of Improvement And For Acquiring Information.

Without Freedom Of Thought, There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom; And No Such Thing As Public Liberty Without Freedom Of Speech; Which Is The Right Of Every Man As Far As By It He Does Not Hurt Or Control The Right Of Another; And This Is The Only Check It Ought To Suffer And The Only Bounds It Ought To Know.... Whoever Would Overthrow The Liberty Of A Nation Must Begin By Subduing The Freedom Of Speech, A Thing Terrible To Traitors.