“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves
“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice