Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang froid immovably, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
American nobility is earned through deeds and is unadorned and uncorrupted by titles.
The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government.
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
Perhaps an editor might… divide his paper into four chapters, heading the first, Truth; 2d, Probabilities; 3d, Possibilities; 4, Lies.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being.
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.
