I hope we shall... crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of streng… - Thomas Jefferson

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

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.

In fine, I repeat, you must lay aside all prejudice on both sides, and neither believe nor reject anything, because any other persons, or description of persons, have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable, not for the rightness, but uprightness of the decision.