"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

"The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery."

"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."

"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."

"Europe is a collection of free countries."

"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."

"But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for."